Stanford Student Robotics · robot dog
Stanford Pupper
A Raspberry Pi-based open-source quadruped with 12 servos, built in under 8 hours as a low-cost benchmark for legged-robotics teaching.
- Price
- —open-source; under US$2,000 per paper, $600-$1,000 self-sourced
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
A research machine from Stanford Student Robotics.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Maker
Stanford Student RoboticsUniversity lab · Stanford, California, United StatesHow it stacks up
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Stanford Pupper has more joints than 0% of the 23 other robot dogs that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, payload, battery, price.
Public attention
How much public attention Stanford Pupper gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Walks on legs · 12 joints
- How it runs
- Assisted. Students steer it with a game controller while its software handles the gait.
- Actuators & motors
- Torque-controllable brushless motors with high specific power (paper version)
- Compute
- Raspberry Pi running Python control code
- Materials & build
- Off-the-shelf and 3D-printed parts; built in under 8 hours
- AI & software
- Open-source design for research and teaching; impedance and torque control
Lineage
Every Stanford Student Robotics machine in order.
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not publishedopen-source; under US$2,000 per paper, $600-$1,000 self-sourced
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- Open-source design, built by universities and hobbyists
- Sold or delivered
- not sold by Stanford (parts under US$2,000)
- Where it is sold or used
- Stanford University, California, United States
News
The latest 1, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Stanford Pupper heads to TC Sessions
TechCrunch previewed Pupper, a cheaper Raspberry Pi-based sibling of Doggo costing under $500 in materials to build.
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Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | Stanford PupperStanford Student Robotics |  Mini CheetahMIT Biomimetic Robotics LabSame job: research · Both walk · Both research platforms | No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useJamocaTencent Robotics XSame job: research · Both walk · Both research platforms |
|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2020 | 2019-03-04 | 2020-11 |
| Status | Research | Research | Research |
| Height | — | 30 cm | — |
| Weight | — | 9 kg | — |
| Joints | 12 | 12 | — |
| Speed | — | 8.8 km/h | — |
| Payload | — | — | — |
| Battery | — | 2 h | — |
| Price | — | — | — |
Sources
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